> I tried pinning a 200mb PDF on IPFS and doing so ended up taking almost a gigabyte of disk space altogether Was that any file in particular? I just tried it

> I tried pinning a 200mb PDF on IPFS and doing so ended up taking almost a gigabyte of disk space altogether Was that any file in particular? I just tried it myself with a 257mb PDF (as reported by `ls -lrth`) and doesn't seem to add that much overhead: $ du -sh ~/.ipfs 84K /home/user/.ipfs $ ipfs add ~/Downloads/large\ PDF\ File.pdf added QmSvbEgCuRNZpkKyQm6nA5vz5RTHW1nxb6MJdR4cZUrnDj large PDF File.pdf 256.58 MiB / 256.58 MiB [============] 100.00% $ du -sh ~/.ipfs 264M /home/user/.ipfs